The idea that Parliament somehow wasn’t going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.
THERESA MAYIn tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
More Theresa May Quotes
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I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain’s future – in Parliament and across the country.
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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
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I know I’m not a showy politician. I don’t go drinking in parliament’s bars. I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.
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We’re getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we’re releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
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Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
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Targets don’t fight crime.
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It’s only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we’re properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.
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Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can’t be right.
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I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it’s one of the most important institutions we have.
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My pitch is very simple. I’m Theresa May and I think I’m the best person to be prime minister of this country.
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Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
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Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
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As I’ve said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn’t just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You’ve got to keep working at that over time.
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What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.
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I’m sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
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In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.
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A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
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It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain’s national interest that the EU should succeed.
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People feel that they’re being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.
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I believe it’s important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that’s what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.
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Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
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I’m a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
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What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.
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For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
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I’m not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
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